First Acid Trip coming up!

Ehh, I have to disagree a little bit Psygrunge, I think it really depends on the person. I think its easy for an experienced person to just fall into the groove and not see how anyone else couldn't, but I've known plenty of people to have brief freak outs on fairly low doses. Not anything major to worry about if you use good judgment, but you admitted yourself that as an experienced tripper you felt some paranoia. Just imagine that times 10 or times 100 and you have what can happen to a first time tripper

 

Alright thanks for the input. I will be tripping with my friend and our 2 sitters will be blazed up!

 

Ive no personal experience of acid

But I always remember a story my sister told me years ago...her friend
John, who would have been 16 at the time dropped a tab and totally
freaked out cos he saw everyone as the devil with fire coming out of
their heads...

I know it sounds funny....but the guy was bricking himself.....

Take care lad.....

 

alright

 

Well, how did it go?

 

Defiantly a extreme exageration

 

I read, after I wrote this, that you had alredy done the deed... But, my advice still applies to anyone who might be considering acid:

Don't listen to these people telling you to take two hits (no offense, guys). ONE will be more than enough. The first time, you are likely to begin tripping 1-2 hours after taking it and not stopping for 24 hours or more, peaking at around hour 7. This will likely produce a nearly spiritual high ( I laughed until the fluids in my face just ran as if from faucets ). DO NOT GO OUT IN PUBLIC! DO NOT DRIVE! Smoking marijuana during this experience will just be a waste of good weed. Expect to feel the effects in your spine for months to come (it feels, to me, like tiny bubbles moving through the spinal fluid).

I would HIGHLY reccommend saving this for a more mature time in your life, when you can truly grasp the spiritual "mental opening" that this drug causes. 25 would be the minimum, for me.

 

Thanks for the contribution soulfire77, what you have written is really good advise.
Personally, I started taking acid when I was 18 (but before hand have had both great and terrifying times with mushrooms) but only because I felt in myself ready.
There's no denying - it's definitely helped out in my life. It's allowed me to accept things, and think of things a hell of a lot differently - and it's not so much a Temporary Autonomous Zone it sticks me in either... the enlightenment (although maybe to a lesser extent) seems to last for months on end.
I think that those who are saying 'take two!!!' for your first time are stuck with really fucking SHITE acid with about 5-10mcg or less per blotter tab!!!

 

It's truly a life altering drug, in some ways. You will never think about life in the same way again after an acid trip. The secret is not to over-do things. People I know of, that have done too much, seem to have serious psychological problems.

Myself, I was fortunate enough to trip with my wife the first time. Our marriage had been pretty good before the trip, but afterwards it was as if we went through 10 years of therapy in a matter of hours.

This is truly why I think that drugs like marijuana and LSD should be a legal adult choice (with perhaps more restriction on LSD). In fact, my advice for anyone having marital trouble would be to spend a year smoking pot together every night during a "talk session" (away from the kids, of course), then to share an acid trip together.

Did you know that when LSD is used to treat alchoholism (as it once was), it has a 50/50 success rate? AA's success rate, to date, is about 1 in 10.

 

i would like to take the opportunity to correct you. you tell everyone not to trust the other guys then you go and prove why you are not the best one to trust either.

you can back up my facts on erowid - www.erowid.org

LSD takes 30 mins to 1 hour to hit you. you will reach your peak 4 hours later and the trip will last for no more then 12 hours. you have almost doubled these figures out of what i assume is ignorance.

the after effects could continue for a long time after you trip depending on the dose but the acid itself will be gone in 12 hours.

i agree that going out in public is probably not the best idea but going outside is amazing if you can avoid running in to anyone.

smoking weed is one of the best things you can do on acid. it enhances visuals and can intensify the trip or mellow the trip depending on the person and the environment. - hardly a waste!

as far as feeling bubbles or anything strange going on with your spine, you are crazy imagining things because of what some idiot told you would happen. LSD is a powerful drug that will allow you to imagine that something is happening when really it is not - you are just paranoid!

if the person is a little hesitant and are worried about taking too much acid then they might consider that one hit be a good starting point. if the person is confident that they will have a good experience and cant wait to fully experience LSD then they should not be afraid of 2 or even more hits for their first trip. if the person is talked into doing 2 hits and they are worried that it might be too much then odds are they are in for a difficult trip. if the person is pumped about taking 2 hits for their first time then odds are they would have a positive experience. -dont listen to these guys trying to scare you, there is nothing to be afraid of but your own fear and they are trying to help you find this fear! if you are looking forward to taking 2 hits then go for it.

 

serious psychological problems come from many different causes. taking too much acid is not the cause. it is actually quite possible that taking tones of acid can turn you into a more enlightened individual. if you use it wisely and walk a positive self awakening path you will realize that it is actually everyone else (the ones who havent tripped enough) who are the ones more likely to have 'serious psychological problems'. now, it is quite common for those of you who dont understand certain things to assume that anyone who uses a lot of LSD will eventually go crazy - of course this is exactly what the government fueled propaganda would have you believe. when the truth is that generally the people who use lots of lsd become a different kind of person that does not usually fit in with the rest of society and are thus labeled crazy.

i am not saying that there are not cases when a person does a lot of acid and winds up with 'serious psychological problems' but i feel that this happens for the most part due to bad set and setting as well as from their ignorance allowing government fueled propaganda to scare them into a bad trip with a bad after effect. when someone uses LSD for prolonged periods it means that the individual is enjoying their experience and in most cases are far more secure then the kind of person who spreads horrible lies in their inexperience.

'serious psychological problems' come from bad choices not from too much LSD. usually when you hear of someone getting all messed up from acid it was only one trip not years of use. when you do hear about people messed up from taking too much acid for too long it is always someone else telling you how crazy this person is now - you rarely hear the person who admits that they have done too much acid and are messed up from it. why is this?

i like how you say 'seem to have serious psychological problems'. clearly pointing out that this is only your opinion.

most likely the person or persons you are referring to would say that you are the one with 'serious psychological problems'.

 

3xi,

I stand by my original posts on this subject, and I'm sorry you felt the need to make such a long retort. Arguing over the minute details of a very subjective experience like an acid trip strikes me as a bit rediculous.

I think you missed the actual point of my post: People should not take more than one dose of LSD when it is their first time. It's a serious trip which need not be taken lightly and should be avoided by the young and immature who might be unprepared for the emotional consequences.

 

i took the time to make my point clear - thats all - sometimes it takes more then a paragraph to get a full thought out. i just wanted to make sure that people were aware that you are not someone they should listen to. that is my right, i think.

not everything about acid is subjective!

if you read down at the bottom of the first post that i quoted you in i clearly state my opinions about how much acid one should take on their first trip... it is too bad you thought i wrote too much to read it all.

 

thanks for this input, im positive i am going for the 2 hits. I want to experience a good acid trip, I've been planning for a while and am ready.